In the second, expanded edition of the acclaimedMedication Errors(1999), Michael R. Cohen brings together some 30 experts from pharmacy, medicine, nursing, and risk management to provide the best, most current thinking about medication errors. Their contributions make this the most comprehensive, authoritative examination in print of the causes of medication errors and strategies to prevent them.Medication Errorsprovides the health care community-acute care, long-term care, ambulatory care, the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory affairs, and academia-with practical guidance to make patients who take or receive medications safer.